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A Waterstones Thriller of the Month
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize
A Sunday Times Book of the Year

'Political crime fiction of the highest order' - SUNDAY TIMES

'A propulsive and compelling novel' - GUARDIAN

Nine-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; instead he found himself all alone, adrift on the vastness of Caddo Lake. A sudden noise - and all goes dark.

Ranger Darren Mathews is trying to emerge from another kind of darkness; his career and reputation lie in the hands of his mother, who's never had his best interests at heart. Now she holds the key to his freedom, and she's not above a little blackmail to press her advantage.

An unlikely possibility of rescue arrives in the form of a case down Highway 59, in a small lakeside town. With Texas already suffering a new wave of racial violence in the wake of the election of Donald Trump, a black man is a suspect in the possible murder of a missing white boy: the son of an Aryan Brotherhood captain. In deep country where the rule of law only goes so far, Darren has to battle centuries-old prejudices as he races to save not only Levi King, but himself.

'One of America's finest novelists' - DAILY MAIL
'A searingly exciting story' - SUNDAY EXPRESS

A Waterstones Thriller of the Month
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize
A Sunday Times Book of the Year

'Political crime fiction of the highest order' - SUNDAY TIMES

'A propulsive and compelling novel' - GUARDIAN

Nine-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; instead he found himself all alone, adrift on the vastness of Caddo Lake. A sudden noise - and all goes dark.

Ranger Darren Mathews is trying to emerge from another kind of darkness; his career and reputation lie in the hands of his mother, who's never had his best interests at heart. Now she holds the key to his freedom, and she's not above a little blackmail to press her advantage.

An unlikely possibility of rescue arrives in the form of a case down Highway 59, in a small lakeside town. With Texas already suffering a new wave of racial violence in the wake of the election of Donald Trump, a black man is a suspect in the possible murder of a missing white boy: the son of an Aryan Brotherhood captain. In deep country where the rule of law only goes so far, Darren has to battle centuries-old prejudices as he races to save not only Levi King, but himself.

'One of America's finest novelists' - DAILY MAIL
'A searingly exciting story' - SUNDAY EXPRESS

Über den Autor
Attica Locke is the author of Heaven, My Home, a Waterstones Thriller of the Month, Bluebird, Bluebird which won the CWA Steel Dagger and an Edgar Award; Pleasantville, which won the 2016 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction; Black Water Rising, which was nominated for an Edgar Award and shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and The Cutting Season, a national bestseller and winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Attica Locke has worked onthe adaptation of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere andAva DuVernay's Netflix series about the Central Park Five, When They See Us. A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Highway 59 by Attica Locke
Inhalt: 304 S.
ISBN-13: 9781781257708
ISBN-10: 1781257701
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Locke, Attica
Auflage: Main
Hersteller: Profile Books Ltd
Highway 59 by Attica Locke
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 198 x 128 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Attica Locke
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2020
Gewicht: 0,25 kg
Artikel-ID: 117406241

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